About the day » Wednesday March 16, 1983Calender converter

• Marjolein Schreurs († 2000)
• Sicco Kornelis van der Beek († 1983)
• Luc Hofsink († 1983)

• ADRIANA ZORGE (84), NIEUW-VENNEP, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Graaf Széchényi van Sárvár-Felsövidék (80), Lissabon
• Charles de Montpellier de Vedrin (86), Erpent, 92094, Belgique
• Cornelis de Rooij (84), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• AncAngela Beckhäuser (1)
• Catherine Theresa MacDonald (54), St. Martha's Hospital, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
• Antje Hiddes Veenstra (85)
• Aaltje Cornelia Birkhoff (92), Wassenaar
• Cornelis van Duijn (58), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Schouten (56), Nijmegen

• 1982 » Brian Wilson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Jesús Del Nero, Spanish road bicycle racer
• 1982 » Miguel Comminges, Guadeloupean footballer
• 1982 » Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1983 » Brandon League, American baseball player
• 1983 » Nicolas Rousseau, French road bicycle racer
• 1983 » Stephen Drew, American baseball player
• 1983 » Tramon Williams, American football player
• 1984 » Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress
• 1984 » Levi Brown, American football player

• 1977 » Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Jigger Statz, American baseball player (b.1897)
• 1988 » Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1990 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
• March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
• April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
• April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
• July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
• December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

The temperature on March 16, 1983 was between 0.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.